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Views: 25There is a woman at the top of the stairs. Her brunette hair up in a bun, tiny tendrils caress her slender neck. Her smile is a beaming light, her almond brown eyes have found yours. I climb the stairs, others evaporate away into nothing. All attention fixed on her. I cross paths with… Continue reading There Is A Woman At The Top Of The Stairs.

Views: 26A Tour On The Prairies by Washington Irving Book Review I’ll meet you at Fort Gibson in Oklahoma on October 28, 1832. We’ll hire a couple of indians and a creole. Their orders are to help provision our larder during a 30 day march into the Autumnal Pawnee hunting grounds. We meet the captain… Continue reading A Tour On The Prairies by Washington Irving Book Review

Views: 33Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens Book Review The Italian countryside is full of ruins, temples, churches, relics, and wicked Roman rituals. Venice is a dream scene. Rome is a disgusting show of pageantry, relic worship, and tall hats on ugly men. Dickens Necromancy. Dickens describes execution he attended in Rome. Chop goes the… Continue reading Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens Book Review

Views: 355Knickerbocker’s History of New York by Washington Irving Book Review There are numerous reasons to turn down a book entitled, “History of New York”, not the least of which is the Damn Yankees and their insufferable New Englander ways. (Washington Irving calls them Amphictyons) Add to this major demerit the author, Washington Irving, who… Continue reading Knickerbocker’s History of New York by Washington Irving Book Review

Views: 31Entering the copse from the Northwest, we find our way through a tangled mess of thickets and briers. Brambles tossed about like kelp on a shore line. The men make slow time with their march, some of them tired from the day’s journey, others bewildered by the landscape. The sound of moving water from… Continue reading FANFARE mp3

Views: 181The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book review. Lord Henry of Baskerville Castle drops dead in the moor. Huge footprints of hell-hound origin are found near his body. Sherlock Holmes smokes a pound of tobacco, drinks two pots of coffee, and stares into the fire at his Baker Street bachelor… Continue reading The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book review

Views: 257The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne Book Review Lord Glenarvan of Malcom Castle is finishing initial sea trials on his new sailing yacht. THE DUNCAN. Three masted, steam powered, screw driven, ocean going sea vessel with crew of twenty sailors. It was Lord Glenarvan’s intention to present the ship to his new… Continue reading The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne Book Review